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Three people stabbed near school in Scarborough, one is in critical condition

Concerned students and parents gathered near a Scarborough school on Friday, looking for answers after news emerged that three teenage boys had been stabbed in a fight, one of them critically.

Paramedics said they transported the victims to hospital, one in life-threatening condition, and the two others with serious injuries.

One of three teenaged patients arrives at Sunnybrook Trauma Centre. The teens were rushed to hospital, all with serious stab wounds, after a late afternoon stabbing outside David & Mary Collegiate Institute, on Lawrence Ave. at Brimley Rd., in Scarborough Friday afternoon. (Victor Biro / for Toronto Star)

The incident occurred just after 3:30 p.m. near Lawrence Ave. E. and Brimley Rd., police said.

Paramedics said the incident unfolded both on and near the grounds of David and Mary Thomson Collegiate Institute, which was placed on hold-and-secure. This was lifted around 4:30 p.m.

“One guy was stabbed, bleeding all over,” said a Grade 10 student who requested that his name not be published.

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Many of the students had gone home by the time of the stabbing, but there were still a few waiting to be picked up by parents or friends, the student said.

Across the street, long strips of yellow hazard tape cordoned off a section of parking lot and sidewalk, where all that remained of the earlier crime scene was an abandoned pile of clothing and large brown paper bags.

The Toronto District School Board tweeted that they notified the parents of a 17-year-old male victim, who is a student at the school, that he had been stabbed.

TDSB spokesperson Ryan Bird said it was unclear whether the other victims are students and how events unfolded.

Bird said it’s possible that the initial incident happened at the plaza nearby and the victims came onto school property.

In the emergency room of Sunnybrook Hospital around 7 p.m., a handful of people feverishly pressed one of many police officers for information about the victims. Some translated the officer’s updates for the others.

“As you know, there were hundreds of people there. It was chaos,” the officer said.

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Armad Mouyed, 23, told the Star he’d tried to break up the fight after it started outside the McDonald’s.

But someone pulled a knife.

“I don’t know what happened,” he said. “This guy took a knife, stabbed my friend, stabbed the other friend, stabbed the other friend. And the other people, they came, all of them.”

A second friend in the hospital waiting room, who was also there at the time, clarified that a group of people had come from around behind the McDonald’s and swarmed them after the fight began.

Though both declined to share the names of the victims, one described them all as “like family.”

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